...Through weary day and weary year ; A wild and many-weaponed throng Hang on thy front and flank and rear. Yet nerve thy spirit to the proof, And blench not...thou not ! Nor heed the shaft too surely cast, The hissing, stinging bolt of scorn ; For with thy side shall dwell, at last, The victory of endurance...

...Through weary day and weary year. A wild and many-weaponed throng Hang on thy front, and flank, and rear. Yet, nerve thy spirit to the proof, And blench not...thou not. Nor heed the shaft too surely cast, The hissing, stinging bolt of scorn ; For with thy side shall dwell, at last, The victory of endurance...

...minglest in the harder strife For truths which men receive not now, Thy warfare only ends with life. Yet nerve thy spirit to the proof, And blench not...sage may frown— yet faint thou not. Nor heed the shafts too surely cast, The hissing, stinging bolt of scorn ; For with thy side shall dwell at last...

...foiled energy, baffled humanity, frustrated hopes ? It would, inindeed, did we not recollect, that " Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again, The eternal years of God are hers, But Error, wounded, writhes in pain, And dies among his worshippers — " that energy and humanity, though beaten for a...

...Through weary day and weary year. A wild and many-weapon'd throng Hang on thy front, and flank, and rear. Yet, nerve thy spirit to the proof, And blench not...thou not. Nor heed the shaft too surely cast, The hissing, stinging bolt of scorn; For with thy side shall dwell, at last, The victory of endurance born....

...Through weary day and weary year. A wild and many-weapon'd throng Hang on thy front, and flank, and rear. Yet, nerve thy spirit to the proof, And blench not...thou not, Nor heed the shaft too surely cast. The hissing, sturging bolt of scorn; For with thy side shall dwell, at last, The victory of endurance bom....

...Through weary day and weary year. A wild and many-weapon'd throng Hang on thy front, and flank, and rear. Yet, nerve thy spirit to the proof, And blench not...lot. The timid good may stand aloof, The sage may frown—yet faint thou not. Nor heed the shaft too surely cast, The hissing, stinging bolt of scorn;...

...weary day and weary year. . A wild and many-weaponed throng Hang on thy front, and flank, and rear. Yet, nerve thy spirit to the proof, And blench not...thou not. Nor heed the shaft too surely cast, The hissing, stinging bolt of scorn ; For with thy side shall dwell, at last, The victory of endurance...

...Through weary day and weary year. A wild and many-weapon'd throng Hang on thy front, and flank, and rear. Yet nerve thy spirit to the proof, And blench not...aloof, The sage may frown — yet faint thou not, ' 106 THE DEPARTED. Nor heed the shaft too surely cast, The hissing, stinging holt of scorn ; For with...

...Through weary day and weary year. A wild and many-weapon'd throng Hang on thy front, and flank, and rear. Yet, nerve thy spirit to the proof, And blench not...timid good may stand aloof, The sage may frown — yet fault thou not, Nor heed the shaft too surely cast, The hissing, stinging bolt of scorn; For with thy...